Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 72 58
Rank change year-on-year -48 -14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,350 1,519 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 3.71% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 3.99% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 905 1,045 2,785
10th Percentile £50,160 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -5.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,052 38,055 78,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.14% 93.05% 86.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38,936 22,478 58,228
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,237
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -7.94%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -37 1,230 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +7 671 £87,500 +2.94% 226
Work from Home -22 598 £70,000 -2.77% 349
UK excluding London -110 570 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -52 259 £67,500 -6.24% 130
North West -48 119 £67,500 -5.26% 76
South East -112 119 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -41 100 £69,653 -3.25% 31
South West -76 59 £63,750 -6.97% 35
Midlands -72 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East +1 40 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East of England -39 39 £65,000 +13.04% 20
West Midlands -20 34 £72,500 +1.75% 21
Scotland -80 30 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -73 23 £67,250 +3.46% 15
Wales -25 10 £54,185 +6.25% 13
Northern Ireland -37 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.41%) Apache
3 18 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.26%) Confluence
5 15 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 15 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.96%) JBoss
7 11 (0.81%) IIS
7 11 (0.81%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.67%) CMS
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.37%) Appian
10 4 (0.30%) Camunda
10 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.074%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Maya
4 5 (0.37%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.074%) Actimize
6 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.074%) Quorum
6 1 (0.074%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.074%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.074%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 740 (54.81%) AWS
2 576 (42.67%) Azure
3 309 (22.89%) GCP
4 244 (18.07%) Serverless
5 169 (12.52%) SaaS
6 117 (8.67%) GitHub
7 114 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
8 112 (8.30%) Amazon S3
9 104 (7.70%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
11 72 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
12 69 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
13 56 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
14 51 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (3.48%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.26%) PaaS
18 38 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
19 36 (2.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.78%) Broadband
2 10 (0.74%) HTTP
3 8 (0.59%) AMQP
3 8 (0.59%) Network Security
4 7 (0.52%) Internet
5 6 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.44%) DNS
5 6 (0.44%) Firewall
6 5 (0.37%) DHCP
6 5 (0.37%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) Multicast
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.074%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (13.78%) NoSQL
2 173 (12.81%) PostgreSQL
3 114 (8.44%) MongoDB
4 112 (8.30%) SQL Server
5 71 (5.26%) MySQL
6 69 (5.11%) Relational Database
7 64 (4.74%) DynamoDB
8 46 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.89%) Redis
10 34 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.44%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.07%) Big Data
13 22 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.63%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.04%) DB2
14 14 (1.04%) Power BI
15 13 (0.96%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.81%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 188 (13.93%) Git
2 128 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 86 (6.37%) GitLab
4 56 (4.15%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.63%) JIRA
6 43 (3.19%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.52%) JUnit
8 32 (2.37%) Selenium
9 31 (2.30%) Cypress.io
10 30 (2.22%) CircleCI
11 20 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.33%) Maven
12 18 (1.33%) Mockito
13 14 (1.04%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.81%) Vite
16 10 (0.74%) JMeter
16 10 (0.74%) Postman
17 8 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 400 (29.63%) Finance
2 361 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 167 (12.37%) Banking
4 103 (7.63%) Law
5 94 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 88 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (5.70%) Retail
8 70 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (4.22%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.33%) Back Office
12 22 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.41%) Legal
14 18 (1.33%) Advertising
14 18 (1.33%) Billing
15 17 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.11%) Games
17 13 (0.96%) Marketing
18 11 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 465 (34.44%) Developer
2 357 (26.44%) Senior
3 276 (20.44%) Software Engineer
4 211 (15.63%) Architect
5 171 (12.67%) Lead
6 118 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 118 (8.74%) Senior Developer
7 110 (8.15%) Java Developer
8 96 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 96 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
9 88 (6.52%) Java Engineer
10 71 (5.26%) .NET Developer
11 64 (4.74%) Software Developer
12 52 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
14 46 (3.41%) Lead Developer
15 42 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
16 40 (2.96%) C# Developer
17 39 (2.89%) Senior Java Engineer
18 37 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (22.44%) React
2 298 (22.07%) .NET
3 278 (20.59%) RESTful
4 223 (16.52%) Spring
5 217 (16.07%) REST
6 200 (14.81%) Node.js
7 194 (14.37%) Spring Boot
8 173 (12.81%) Kafka
9 112 (8.30%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.81%) gRPC
11 89 (6.59%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.85%) HTML
13 70 (5.19%) CSS
14 68 (5.04%) .NET Framework
15 66 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (4.22%) ASP.NET
17 55 (4.07%) Django
17 55 (4.07%) Middleware
17 55 (4.07%) Vue
18 51 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 394 (29.19%) Cloud Native
2 243 (18.00%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (7.78%) Product Ownership
4 91 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
6 52 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
8 40 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 25 (1.85%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.78%) Virtual Team
14 23 (1.70%) Blockchain
15 22 (1.63%) AI Agents
16 16 (1.19%) IoT
16 16 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.19%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.44%) Linux
2 23 (1.70%) Windows
3 16 (1.19%) Android
4 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.44%) Unix
6 5 (0.37%) CentOS
6 5 (0.37%) Debian
6 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (48.96%) CI/CD
2 543 (40.22%) Agile
3 533 (39.48%) DevOps
4 520 (38.52%) Software Engineering
5 381 (28.22%) Containerisation
6 318 (23.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 290 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (20.30%) Mentoring
9 270 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 262 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 260 (19.26%) Test Automation
12 235 (17.41%) AI
13 200 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 198 (14.67%) Computer Science
15 164 (12.15%) Scrum
16 161 (11.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 159 (11.78%) Clean Code
18 158 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
19 153 (11.33%) Roadmaps
20 150 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 441 (32.67%) Java
2 374 (27.70%) Python
3 286 (21.19%) SQL
4 262 (19.41%) JavaScript
5 244 (18.07%) C#
6 209 (15.48%) TypeScript
7 125 (9.26%) Go
8 51 (3.78%) Scala
9 41 (3.04%) PHP
10 39 (2.89%) C++
11 35 (2.59%) Bash
12 34 (2.52%) C
13 29 (2.15%) Ruby
14 22 (1.63%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.26%) PowerShell
16 16 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.89%) Rust
18 10 (0.74%) Groovy
19 8 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 197 (14.59%) Degree
2 120 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (8.44%) Security Cleared
4 81 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 58 (4.30%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.11%) CISSP
11 15 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.74%) CISM
13 8 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.59%) PhD
14 6 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.37%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.07%) QA
2 32 (2.37%) GDPR
3 27 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 22 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.96%) NIST
7 10 (0.74%) NCSC
8 7 (0.52%) GRC
9 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.44%) IFRS
10 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.30%) SLA
11 4 (0.30%) WCAG
12 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.22%) SEPA
13 1 (0.074%) EMIR
13 1 (0.074%) Solvency II
System Software
1 420 (31.11%) Docker
2 13 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 422 (31.26%) Kubernetes
2 241 (17.85%) Terraform
3 88 (6.52%) Grafana
4 80 (5.93%) Ansible
5 38 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.70%) Kibana
7 13 (0.96%) Argo
8 9 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.44%) Puppet
10 5 (0.37%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Packer
12 3 (0.22%) Nagios
12 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 123 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.37%) Google
3 50 (3.70%) Oracle
4 45 (3.33%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.41%) IBM
6 16 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.11%) SAP
8 14 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.89%) AppDynamics
11 10 (0.74%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.74%) Cisco
11 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 10 (0.74%) Software AG
11 10 (0.74%) Splunk
12 9 (0.67%) Databricks
12 9 (0.67%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.59%) BiZZdesign